USES OF THERE IS/ ARE ( haber)
Contractions
The contraction of there is is there's.
- There's a good song on the
radio.
- There's only one chocolate
left in the box.
You cannot contract there are.
- There are nine cats on the roof.
- There are only five weeks until
Christmas.
Negative Form
The negative is formed by putting not after is or are:
- There is not a horse in the field.
- There are not eight children in the school.
- There is not a tree in the garden.
- There are not two elephants in the zoo.
The Negative contractions are:
There's not = There isn't
There are not = There aren't
There Are with
ANY
When we want to indicate that a zero quantity of something exists we use there aren't any.
- There aren't any people at the party.
- There aren't any trees in my street.
We also use this structure with uncountable nouns:
- There isn't any water in the swimming pool.
- There isn't any sugar in my coffee.
Questions
To form a question we place is / are in front of there.
Again we use any with plural questions or those which use uncountable nouns.
We also use there is /
are in short answers.
- Is there a dog in the
supermarket? - No, there isn't.
- Are there any dogs in the park?
- Yes, there are.
- Is there a security guard in
the shop? - Yes, there is.
- Are there any polar bears in
Antarctica? - No, there aren't.
- Is there any ice-cream in the
freezer? - Yes, there is.
How Many with
Are There
If we want to find out the number of objects that exist we use How many in the
following form:
How many + plural noun
+ are there (+
complement).
- How many dogs are there in the park?
- How many students are there in your class?
- How many countries are there in South America?
- How many Star Wars films are there?
- NOW MAKE A DESCRIPTION ABOUT WHAT YOU SEE IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PAINTING!!!
WE CAN START BY SAYING...
IN VAN GOGH'S ROOM THERE IS A GRAY DOOR IN THE LEFT SIDE AND THERE ARE MANY PICTURES HANGING ON THE WALLS. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
- EXERCISE: WATCH THE IMAGE BY CLICKING ON THE NEXT LINK AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS BELOW.
IMAGE FOR BOYS!!!
- HOW MANY PILLOWS ARE THERE ON THE FLOOR?
- IS THERE A FLOWER POT ON A CORNER SHELF?
- HOW MANY LAMPS ARE THERE?
- IS THERE A VERY COLORFUL RUG?
- IS THERE LIGHT COMING OUT FROM THE BED EDGES?
- ARE THERE FLOWERS IN SOME PLACE IN THE ROOM?
- HOW MANY PILLOWS ARE THERE ON THE BED?
- IS THERE A NICE LAMP TO ENLIGHT THE ROOM?
- HOW MANY BOOKS ARE THERE IN THE SHELVES?
- IS THERE ENOUGH FREE ROOM TO ADD ANOTHER FURNITURE?
A SHORTFILM
- ¿¿¿TE GUSTAN LOS CORTOMETRAJES??? AQUI TE DEJO UNO
- IDENTIFICA EL MOMENTO EN EL QUE EL PERSONAJE PRINCIPAL USA "THERE IS" !!!
- DURA POCOS MINUTOS Y LO MEJOR ES QUE HAY MENSAJE!!!
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